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When’s the last time you looked at what you’re paying for in your phone bill? If you’ve had the same carrier for years, you may be used to paying a set amount every month, with a few occasional surprises. Or maybe you have your bill set up
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Voice AI startup ElevenLabs announced today that it’s allowing employees to cash out a portion of their vested equity at a $22 billion valuation, doubling the $11 billion valuation the company hit when it raised $500 million in February. The recent $300 million tender offer gave employees an opportunity
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While AI has made plenty of inroads on people’s phones and computers, it’s largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they’re apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetite for physical
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OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday. LASST asks the court to bar OpenAI from accessing computer systems without authorisation. The
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Oura has postponed its Nasdaq IPO, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market”. The Finnish-founded smart ring maker said so in a statement on Tuesday, a week after it launched the offering. It said it is postponing “despite strong demand”, and gave no new date. Oura had planned to sell 50
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CScale, a Palo Alto startup building optical interconnect for AI data centres, has come out of stealth with $145m in Series C funding. The round takes its total funding to $188m, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Atreides Management led the round, with Valor Equity Partners and Premji
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OpenAI says people linked to Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi, were behind a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. The company set out its findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The activity began on 1 July at low volume. It spiked on 24
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* Data center developer offers households $10,000 each in attempt to get huge campus approved * Residents have called the payment a 'bribe', and list numerous concerns over pollution, water use, and property values * Developer's chief marketing officer called the payment a "pretty radical and pretty
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit is further limiting who can use the “Old Reddit” experience as part of its efforts to combat scraping and automated traffic. Reddit recently started forcing users
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Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds. Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the
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The company is also cutting off RSS support. DIA TV/Shutterstock Last month, Reddit signaled that there would be significant changes coming to "Old Reddit" as it continues to fight AI scraping. Now, the company says that it will soon restrict the 21-year-old desktop version of its website
